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Professional Concerns: They Can ALL Learn to Read.
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Shuman, R. Baird; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes the use of a structured language experience approach and an imitative, or taped book, approach to teaching reading to children who were reading with difficulty. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
If They Talk When You Say "Listen!" and Won't Talk When You Say "Discuss!" Read!
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Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Outlines techniques for using group discussion and story dramatization activities to teach speaking and listening skills to elementary students. (GW)
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Group Discussion, Language Arts
Supplying the Missing Links from Consonant Substitution to "Real Reading"
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Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1977
Briefly discusses research on consonant substitution and presents a five-step teaching strategy to help beginning readers use the words they know to figure out the words they don't know. (JM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Consonants, Elementary Education, Phonics
Let Them Read the Book.
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Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1981
Deplores beginning reading instruction stressing drill in isolated skills that interrupts the natural reading process. Suggests the use of imitative reading, such as having preschool children "memorize" a book they have heard aloud several times, as a successful teaching strategy. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Motivation Techniques, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Put Your Two Bottom Readers in Your Top Reading Group.
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Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Suggests ways of adapting instruction so that the lowest level readers can do some reading each week at their instructional levels. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Reading Instruction, Remedial Reading
Making Seatwork Work.
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Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1991
Shares practical and successful solutions to implementing three recommendations concerning seatwork made in "Becoming a Nation of Readers." (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education